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Before we jump into this, you should know that a number of scientists are currently researching the feasibility of warp drive (and EMdrive and a number of other modes of faster than light travel); however, most think that such forms of space travel simply aren’t viable, thanks to the fundamental physics of our universe. So…

BUDGET BUMMER NASA has been talking about getting humans to Mars for years, and continues to provide updated plans for getting there. Unfortunately, though, NASA’s chief of human spaceflight, William H. Gerstenmaier, just announced that the agency can’t achieve the Mars goal on its current budget. “I can’t put a date on humans on Mars,…

NASA just announced several bounties to improve its FUN3D software, which is used to simulate fluid dynamics. The system is used internally at NASA, as well as by companies like Boeing and Lockheed, to develop and optimize new vehicles and engines. The FUN3D project was started back in the 1980s, and it has been in…

SpaceX has won another mission — this time, to survey the world’s oceans. NASA announced last week that it had tapped SpaceX to launch a satellite that would “make the first-ever global survey of Earth’s surface water.” It is by no means the first time Elon Musk’s ambitious company has partnered with the space agency…

Have you ever wanted to go to Mars but just couldn’t find the time? Well, you might be in luck! The 3 Days Journey To Mars. People continue to be fascinated with Mars, with numerous planned missions from the US, Russia and China as well as private companies preparing to colonize the Red Planet. But,…

NASA Promises We’ll Find Alien Life in Around 20 Years, Humanity is on the verge of discovering alien life, high-ranking NASA scientists say. “I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years,” NASA chief scientist…

Excelling programmer has had to fight social restrictions, stereotypes before winning recognition, The First Arabian Woman To Win A NASA’s Competition. Hard work and determination led Jordanian Ayat Amer to become the first Arab woman to win a NASA competition, only at 22 years old. “Being accepted to NASA’s training programme is indeed a huge step…

Officially: President Barack Obama Wants to Colonize Mars before 2030. “We have set a clear goal vital to the next chapter of America’s story in space,” Obama wrote in a piece for CNN. This might be one the president’s last major initiatives launched while in office. Obama wants astronauts to safely return to Earth after visiting…

Something like 68% of the universe is made up of dark energy, a mysterious force thought to fuel the expansion of the universe. Another 27% is dark matter, which – as CERN explains – “does not absorb, reflect or emit light,” even though it seems to pull at the things in the universe we can…

When programmers at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory set out to develop the flight software for the Apollo 11 space program in the mid-1960s, the necessary technology did not exist. They had to invent it. They came up with a new way to store computer programs, called “rope memory,” and created a special version of the…

This coming Monday, one of the most exciting space missions in recent history is going to begin. That’s when, for only the second time ever, a spacecraft is going to enter orbit around Jupiter. And this time, we’ll learn more about the largest planet of our Solar System than ever before. The spacecraft, NASA’s Juno,…

The red deserts of Mars have revealed a surprise: an altogether new type of sand dune. Today a team of scientists led by Mathieu Lapotre, a planetary geologist at Caltech, announced a new type of geological formation in the Martian sands. Lapotre’s team discovered waves of windswept sand that are totally unlike the two features…